On 13 September 2006, Jonathan Robson, a person discharging managerial responsibilities at Reuters, exercised options from two Discretionary Share Option Plans (DSOPs) granted to him in 2003 in respect of a total of 75,000 Ordinary 25p shares. All of the shares were sold for £4.10 per share.

Mr Robson now has a beneficial interest in 5,272 Ordinary shares, options over 58,625 Ordinary shares and rights under Reuters long term incentive plans in respect of 167,179 Ordinary shares.

These holdings do not exceed 1% of the issued share capital of the company.

Contact:

Elizabeth Maclean
Assistant Company Secretary
Reuters Group PLC
Elizabeth.maclean@reuters.com
Tel no. 020 7542 6707